No, not this one. The Art of Manliness gave me this idea: 22 Manly Ways to Reuse an Altoids Tin Instead of any of those ideas, however, I decided to build a voltage regulator inside one of the smaller tins, so I could charge my phone (a Motorola Droid 2) or any other device that …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
A year later…
My truck is one of my ongoing projects. Already its timing belt installation, some lighting modifications, and some other things about it are up here. About a year ago I did a torsion bar crank which lifted the front of the truck about 2 inches, which made the truck look nice and level. It’s settled …
New Amplifier
It’s about time I finished this one up. About six years ago, I inherited a speaker. Then, I found it’s partner and had two speakers. (Those clothes are actually all clean, btw.) I had to repair three out of the ten drivers (one low, one mid, and one high). For a while, I ran just …
Power Supply!
I was in need of a power supply for electricity for my breadboard projects, and was looking to buy a DC bench power supply. Instead, I found someone on the internets that gave me the idea to build one out of an old computer power supply. Since there are other how-tos on the internet I …
Top 11 Albums and Some Others
What five albums most influenced my life? I don’t know about influenced… but I have been thinking about that for quite a while, and while this may be a nontraditional post for this blog I think it’s worth mentioning. I couldn’t narrow it down to five, so I picked ten that changed my life most, …